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Health Notes- Tips for a Healthy Halloween

5 Tips for a Healthy Halloween from Olivia B. Waxman, TIME.com   Wondering if it’s possible to have a healthy Halloween? Here are some tips from dentists and nutritionists…   Halloween is that sweet time of year when children can … Continue reading

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Sellwood Bridge Update- Goodbye to the last old support

Here on the East End of the bridge, the concrete pour on Tacoma has been occupying our attention.  It’s a big jump in the project and we’re glad to see it, but another milestone was quietly reached out in the … Continue reading

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Book Spotlight- Two Columbus Day Discoveries

Two Columbus Day Discoveries This past Monday brought the somewhat awkward celebration of Columbus Day.  In our News To Make You Furious this month we talked about a push to sanitize history and leave a panoply of heroes without flaw, … Continue reading

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Humorousness- 29 People About To Have Very, Very Bad Days

Wise comedians tell us that humor comes from pain… other people’s pain.  By that definition, this month’s Humorousness delves into humor about to happen…    

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Popcorn Shorts for October 2012

Just like it says, Popcorn Shorts is about the kind of things we think are really interesting, but don’t really need a large article to explain them.  From the sublime to the ridiculous, check in here for crunchy bits of … Continue reading

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News To Make You Furious- I’m Christopher Columbus. Here’s my baggage.

Another Columbus Day has come and gone, doing nothing more useful than giving FOX News another chance to babble about lib’s trashing a ‘merikan icon.  So why are we dragging the “holiday” into News To Make You Furious?  Because Columbus … Continue reading

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Welcome to the Future! Our 2014 Car of the Future Winners

Our Car of the Future Contest winners For many years we’ve been proud sponsors of the Sellwood Park Concert Series.  (If you’ve never been to the show, you don’t know what you’re missing.  Check out our article on this year’s … Continue reading

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OMSI- “Car of the Future” winners

OMSI’s second “Drive Revolution- The Future of Transportation” was July 19, and we were proud to be part of it once again.  We were there to talk with folks about the futuristic level of automotive care available at Tom Dwyer, but … Continue reading

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Tom’s Tidbits- Democracy’s dead, so what’s the cure?

Greetings! A recent study documented the obvious… our government doesn’t give a damn about the wishes of the American people.  Martin Gilens of Princeton and Benjamin Page of Northwestern studied more than 1800 policy initiatives from 1981 to 2002, and … Continue reading

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What NOW?!! Toons- Our May check-in with Keith Tucker

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